Sorry but you are also wrong. What Godel's incompleteness theorem says is that in any sufficiently complex system there are *true* statements that you can't prove.
One popular example is the statement "This statement is unprovable". If you can prove it the system is broken because you can prove false statements, so the statement is true but not provable.
I'm a little curious if there's been any improvement in the multimedia layer that Loki uses since the first CivCTP patch came out? Unfortunately, on my machine civctp is a statically linked executable (Bad Loki!) and so I can't just download the latest SDL code from their site and try it. I'll happily go hunting around again if they've had a later CivCTP patch than 1.1.
Since SDL is LGPL'ed you should be able to get either a dynamically linked version of CivCTP or an object file that can be linked with SDL. If they don't give you that they are really bad.
Although it's good that he got out, there's stiull the issue of linking and the nebulous "assisting copyright crimes".
Well, I don't think he would'we been convicted for that either. Because in Sweden it's legal to make copies of copyrighted material for own use. That is you are allowed to make copies of any published work, with three exceptions, buildings, computer programs and digital copies of digital collections.
I've heard people say that music CD's are considered a computer program, but I don't think a court would agree. You might also argue that a CD constitutes a digital collection, but that's doubtful and easy to work around (just mix the songs with other songs).
That brings me to the conclusion that your free to make copies of mp3's for personal use. So linking to mp3's could be considered helping people to make copies for personal use which is legal. It could of course also be considered helping someone distributing mp3's, which is illegal.
Anyway I don't think he would have been convicted for "assisting copyright crime" and that's probably why he wasn't tried for that.
I should also say that I'm not a lawyer, so this is just a laymans interpretations of the law.
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Sorry but you are also wrong. What Godel's incompleteness theorem says is that in any sufficiently complex system there are *true* statements that you can't prove.
One popular example is the statement "This statement is unprovable". If you can prove it the system is broken because you can prove false statements, so the statement is true but not provable.
I'm a little curious if there's been any improvement in the multimedia layer that Loki uses since the first CivCTP patch came out? Unfortunately, on my machine civctp is a statically linked executable (Bad Loki!) and so I can't just download the latest SDL code from their site and try it. I'll happily go hunting around again if they've had a later CivCTP patch than 1.1.
Since SDL is LGPL'ed you should be able to get either a dynamically linked version of CivCTP or an object file that can be linked with SDL. If they don't give you that they are really bad.
Although it's good that he got out, there's stiull the issue of linking and the nebulous "assisting copyright crimes".
Well, I don't think he would'we been convicted for that either. Because in Sweden it's legal to make copies of copyrighted material for own use. That is you are allowed to make copies of any published work, with three exceptions, buildings, computer programs and digital copies of digital collections.
I've heard people say that music CD's are considered a computer program, but I don't think a court would agree. You might also argue that a CD constitutes a digital collection, but that's doubtful and easy to work around (just mix the songs with other songs).
That brings me to the conclusion that your free to make copies of mp3's for personal use. So linking to mp3's could be considered helping people to make copies for personal use which is legal. It could of course also be considered helping someone distributing mp3's, which is illegal.
Anyway I don't think he would have been convicted for "assisting copyright crime" and that's probably why he wasn't tried for that.
I should also say that I'm not a lawyer, so this is just a laymans interpretations of the law.